{"id":17082,"date":"2019-03-30T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17082"},"modified":"2019-03-30T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T03:35:09","slug":"malta-arrests-five-after-migrants-hijacked-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17082","title":{"rendered":"Malta arrests five after migrants hijacked ship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/Malta-arrests-five-after-migrants-hijacked-ship-734018?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/75688603.295.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Tanker\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The tanker was taking migrants to Libya when it was hijacked<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VALLETTA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The authorities in Malta have arrested five people as part of their investigation into the hijacking by migrants of a ship which rescued them in the Mediterranean.<br><br>In the early hours of Thursday, Malta&#8217;s security forces carried out an operation at sea to take control of the ship, which has now been brought into the Maltese capital, Valletta.<br><br>The migrant journey across the Mediterranean is already one of the most dangerous in the world.<br><br>Now it&#8217;s just got more complicated for both the migrants and their rescuers.<br><br>On Wednesday, off the coast of Libya, the Elhiblu1 merchant ship picked up more than 100 unarmed migrants &#8211; and began to take them back to the North African country.<br><br>A number of the migrants then took over the boat and set sail instead for Malta &#8211; the nearest European port.<br><br>Maltese special forces boarded the boat before it could reach the island.<br><br>They docked in the capital Valletta and arrested a small number of those on board.<br><br>The rest &#8211; including women and children were taken to reception centres.<br><br>Advocates for the rescued migrants will insist that they be allowed to stay in Europe.<br><br>But anti-migration campaigners will warn that this may only encourage further hijackings in the future. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tanker was taking migrants to Libya when it was hijacked VALLETTA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The authorities in Malta have arrested five people as part of their investigation into the hijacking by migrants of a ship which rescued them in the Mediterranean. In the early hours of Thursday, Malta&#8217;s security forces carried out an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}